Jason W. Dean, 2020

 Researcher in Residence, 2020 

 Jason is the Vice President for Special Collections at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri. His research interests include special collections administration, American color printing, the work of Carl Hertzog, the life and work of S. Fred Prince(1857-1949), and metadata for rare books and special collections. Along with fellow OSGF researcher in residence Sarah Burke Cahalan, he is working on a book project focused on the work of Prince, a self-taught naturalist and scientific illustrator. Learn more about Jason at www.jasonwdean.com/. 

Gabriela Lamy, 2020

 Researcher in Residence, 2020 

Gabriela is a researcher at the Palace of Versailles Research Center  in Versailles, France.  For her OSGF residency, she will view library materials related to the plant exchange at Versaille in the late 1700s, in order to support her research tracing the palace’s plant records and the plant exchange in the Atlantic Empire.

Andrea Pérez Bessin

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Andrea Pérez Bessin is a printmaker and installation artist whose work focuses on syncretic amalgams of plants and humans that celebrate gender variance present in the natural world. They received their MFA in Studio art from the University of Connecticut, a BFA in Studio Art from Rhode Island College and a BA in Biology from Brown University. Their practice has been sustained through residencies and grants including Oak Spring Garden Foundation, The Peter Bullough Foundation, The Rhode Island Foundation, Millay Arts, Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust, Marks Family Endowment in the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Andrea lives and works in Newport, Rhode Island.

Brandon Scott

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Brandon Scott is a multimedia artist and art historian studying how medicinal and non-medicinal plants have been interpreted and used throughout time.

Mandy Bonnell

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Mandy Bonnell is a printmaker and contemporary artist investigating the connections that lie between drawing and stitch, combining a variety of traditional craft techniques with contemporary drawing and printmaking processes.

She explores mark making on an intimate scale using careful precision to create skeletal structures inspired by the natural world and textile samples. As well as responding to the natural world, her imagery draws on eighteenth and nineteenth century textile samples of embroidery and lace and she incorporates typographic punctuation marks transferred into different pattern formations to form a narrative. The time it takes to produce these sequences unites the pursuit of hand-stitched needlepoint while utilizing a repeated mark within a non-repeated pattern.

Her work is a response to self-taught eighteenth and nineteenth century women artists and naturalists, to acknowledge forgotten artists, whose images are lasting examples of plants and insects now extinct and provide insight into the attitudes and practices of women at the time. She aims to establish an on-going visual and tactile dialogue with the past and interpret this through contemporary drawing and printmaking methods.

Calaudine Metrick

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Born in Philadelphia, PA Claudine Metrick is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor at PrattMWP, an affiliate of the Pratt Institute.

In 2023, she will be an artist in residence at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and The Walkaway House, Center of Gravity Residency. Her work has been exhibited at the Vessels’ Gallery formerly in Boston’s South End, as well as Carroll and Sons, the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Danforth Museum of Art, the New Bedford Art Museum, the Cotuit Center for the Arts, AS220, the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY, Arizona State University, Morehead State University, Adams State University and in the New York City area at The Painting Center, Site: Brooklyn, and Curious Matter.

Recent shows include the “26th Annual Drawing Show” at The Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA, “Uncompressed” at Coastal Carolina University, and a solo exhibition of works “Biophilia” at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

Deepthi Bathala

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Deepthi Bathala is a writer focusing on architectural history and theory. She was recently recognized by The Graham Foundation with a 2023 Carter Manny Writing Citation. Taubman College Ph.D. student earned this recognition for her dissertation titled “Famine Crops, Plantations, and Environmental Imaginaries: Botanical Gardens in Colonial and Contemporary India.” 

Her aspiration is to contribute to a broader understanding of the active role that plants play in shaping our environment and informing our efforts to address climate change.

Veronica Martin

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Veronica Martin is a writer from Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Hesperios Journal, Vestoj, Kinfolk, Fonograf Magazine and elsewhere. Her 2016 column for Tin House, Your Slipcase is Showing, explored the intersection of literature and personal aesthetic.  She has received fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers and from the Community of Writers, and holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas.

Yujin Kang

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Yujin Kang 강유진 is a painter currently based out of Virginia and has exhibited her work across the U.S and internationally. Her work features impressionistic mountainous landscapes juxtaposed against modern architecture and construction. To see more of her work visit her website here: https://www.kangyujin.com/

Esy Casey

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

At seventeen Esy went to Mexico to secretly join the Zapatistas, but was distracted by the murals of Siqueiros and ultimately received an MFA from Hunter College in Integrated Media Arts. Her film, video and print work considers the ways that symbols and objects in a landscape maintain the presence of past events and belief systems.

She has worked as a cinematographer on films including BORN TO FLY (Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming Emmy nominee, Independent Lens with DPs Albert Maysles and Kirsten Johnson, Dir. Cat Gund) and BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (Dir. PJ Raval, America Reframed).
Her directorial debut JEEPNEY premiered on PBS, was nominated for Best Documentary at CAAMFest and won the jury prize for Best Cinematography at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from organizations including The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), The Creative Work Fund, The Princess Grace Foundation USA, The Flaherty Seminar, The Ford Foundation, The New York Film Festival, MacDowell, Yaddo, The Center for Asian American Media, and The American Association of University Women.

Jane Marchant

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV

Jane Marchant is an interdisciplinary storyteller working with writing, photography, plants, and collage. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Apogee, Kweli Journal, Catapult, Columbia Journal, Evergreen Review, and elsewhere, as well as anthologized in The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century (2Leaf Press). Her photography and book art have been exhibited with the Center for Book Arts, Kala Art Institute, and ACCI Gallery. She’s at work on a memoir in the form of an Encyclopedia of Botany of the San Francisco Bay Area, which investigates motherhood, racial passing, and interconnected root systems.

Jane is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and Lucas Artists Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center. She has received support from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation, Tin House’s First Book Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and Art Omi, among others. 

Helen Palmer

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session III

Helen Palmer is a writer, thinker and teacher. She is the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (Bloomsbury, 2014), Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and her first novel is Pleasure Beach (Prototype, 2023).

The concepts she has written about in recent years all share the common need for new narratives and new perceptions. They all require the simultaneous deployment of scientific and technical experimentation with playful use of the imagination in order to think beyond what already exists and fabulate alternative models into being.

Palmer has been teaching across the disciplines of literature, literary and critical theory, diffractive creativities and creative writing since 2010. She runs public creative writing workshops.

Darcy Casey

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session III

Darcy Casey is a writer, editor, and teacher holding an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. She’s a member of MWPA, AWP, and The Authors Guild. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yemassee, CutBank, Brilliant Flash Fiction, River River, and elsewhere.

The opening page for her novel, Pity-Heart, was Longlisted for the Retreat West Best Opening Page Competition in 2020 and her flash CNF piece, “My Sister and Other Big Things,” was a runner-up for the CutBank Big Sky, Small Prose contest in 2019. 

Nancy Hershberger

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session III

Nancy Hershberger is an art quilter/fiber artist. She makes art quilts using fabric and thread and inspiration from the natural world.

Antonella Chiodo

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session III

Antonella Chiodo is brilliant researcher, and specialist in 16th century Italian drawings. She has completed research at the Frick Center for the History of Collecting, and continues to work part-time at the Morgan Library.

Phillippa Pitts, 2023

Stacy Lloyd Fellowship 2023

Phillippa Pitts is a Horowitz Foundation Fellow for American Art at Boston University. Her research questions social, political, and racial borders within American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting the aspirations and anxieties around expansion, immigration, xenophobia, and Indigeneity that underpin such constructions.

Ingmar Staude, 2023

Fellowship in Plant Conservation Biology 2023

Dr. Ingmar Staude is Senior Scientist of the group "Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity" at Leipzig University. Ingmar’s research focus is centered around understanding nature’s strategy to cope with anthropogenic global change using theoretical, inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches.

Laura Villareal

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Laura Villareal is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving, (University of Wisconsin Press 2022) was awarded Texas Institute of Letters' John A. Robert Johnson Award for a First Book of Poetry and the Writers' League of Texas Book Award for Poetry. ​She earned an MFA at Rutgers University—Newark and has been the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, National Book Critics Circle’s Emerging Critics Program, VONA, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at University of Texas-Austin. 
 
She is currently an associate with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where she co-edits and writes for Letras Latinas Blog 2, in addition to working on other related projects. 

Rachel Hirsch

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Rachel Hirsch studies the cultural history of early modern South Asia. Her research is geared towards understanding the construction of cities and gardens, theorizing urbanism and territoriality, and experimenting with new research methods. Rachel has spent the past several summers in Pune, Jaipur, Lucknow, and Burhanpur, where she has conducted fieldwork and studied Hindi and Persian. More recently, she has written on the construction of Burhanpur in the early seventeenth century and on the historiography of Islamic cities in South Asia.

Marco Wilkinson

Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II

Marco Wilkinson received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Madder: A Memoir in Weeds. He has received fellowships from the Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology, Breadloaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, the Hemera Foundation, and Craigardan. He is the nonfiction editor at The Los Angeles Review. His teaching and writing interests include creative nonfiction, ecopoetics, lyric prose, Latinx literature, and queer literature.